Word: fervors
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...Holy Land of Jesus' time, the scrolls show, was rife with apocalyptic fervor. Ordinary Jews yearned for a savior who would lead them in a holy war against the oppressive Romans and a corrupt aristocracy, typified by the hated King Herod. Some scholars believe that Jesus was one of many political rebels in Palestine. His proclamation that the meek would inherit the earth was, in this view, not a dream of eschatological hope but a here-and-now demand for a new political order...
...Serbia proper, reaction was muted but generally welcoming. Most Serbs long ago lost their nationalist fervor and their passion for the war next door. As sanctions hit hard and fueled inflation, the Serb nation looked forward to peace and a return to normality. They realize Milosevic touched off the bloodbath, and now has tried to end it. "I know Milosevic started this," says Dejan Popovic, 22, a student in Belgrade, "and his guilt may be greater than any other's. But now I have to say thank you." Last week the U.N. Security Council said it too by suspending...
...play moves from synod to seedy bar, from cathedral crypt to council flat. Sommer offers an adept portrayal of a man rich in feeling but poor in political skills, and Cumpsty does a marvelous job of radiating dangerous certitude. He embodies the paradox of the sort of spiritual fervor that, while ostensibly surrendering itself to a Larger Power, borders on megalomania: every cloud in the sky, every leaf on the tree, serves as a personal signal corroborating his uncompromising judgments...
Still, the irresistible fervor of the artist comes through. Williams, who eventually succeeded in publishing some volumes of poetry, was never much of a poet. But his greatest plays are flush with poetry in the broad sense--with moments of compressed lyrical yearning. A number of his most famous lines (like Blanche DuBois' valedictory "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers") might well have surfaced in one of Robert Frost's adage-laden verse-monologues...
...since last November he has never had so many hookers. Some of them have been tied up, spanked and sodomized by lawyers and lobbyists for years. Many of them are new to the world's oldest profession, but since arriving in Washington they have been turning tricks with unabashed fervor for Madam Gingrich and his clients...